Supporting craft breweries

I suspect its probably a double whammey of reduced consumer demand and higher input costs, both due to current inflationary pressures. This will have a disproportionately negative effect on smaller brewers.

When folks are tightening the belt, those expensive beers may be curtailed.

Seeing reduced production levels in home grown whiskey distillers from the smaller players also, but admittedly the drivers may still be different as these guys are more focused on export markets rather than domestic consumption.

Tesco are now stocking bottles of 8 Degrees.

For anyone not aware, the Aussie & Kiwi founders bought the brand back from Irish Distillers a couple of years back, so its a proper indi brew again.

You can still get nice craft at a good price from Lidl or Aldi.

I’d never resort to Heineken myself. 🤣

From what I can see online there's a brewery in london called "Bohem" which specialise in Czech lager … But I dont think its linked to the Irish one.

https://www.bohembrewery.com/

What little is available stinks of brand ambassadors and marketing people.

It looks very like the aforementioned Jubel.

But that split white/colour style has been used by plenty of places that consulted a marketing team first and brewer second.

I wonder are ALDI going to stock it? They won't be sued this time.

The last news report was that they had paid up and were allowed back in to the brewery, but that it hadn't been made for a prolonged period at that time.

It's still sold in his pub, but I think every other stockist in ROI dumped it within a few weeks. Harkins in D8 made some stupid commentary about still selling it which got huge backlash; then showed an O'Haras Stout tap going in on their social media shortly after that!

Is he selling year+ out of date kegs? Very possibly. The idiots that flock there won't be able to tell anyway.